Hatespeach

Posted May 3, 2012 10:38 UTC (Thu) by tpo (subscriber, #25713)
Parent article: The plumbing layer as the new kernel

Once upon a time I quit participating (but not contributing) in Debian because the discussions there were soaking with hate. I just could not stand it any more. It was like living in a relationship with constant quarrel.

I hear that Debian's culture has advanced and discussion standards have gone up. I'm however getting the impression, that the standard of lwn's discussions has been heading the other way.

I seems that throwing around "crap" in comments has become OK.

I think I can handle and filter the tides of emotional pressure better nowadays, however the need for doing so is exhausing and makes it harder to discern the interesting intellectual part of the discussion among the exchange of emotional fluids.

I'm not sure it'll continue to be worth the effort to read the comments sections here if the discussion culture here will keep on evolving in the same style...

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Re: Hatespeach

Posted May 3, 2012 13:23 UTC (Thu) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link] (1 responses)

I have also noticed that the amount of meta comments seem to be increasing lately...

Re: Hatespeech

Posted May 4, 2012 15:29 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (guest, #1954) [Link]

It's always been my observation that the surest way to get flamed in LWN comments is to be mean to someone.

For example, when I read, "this is one of the worst articles that I've ever read here," I knew that there would be many opposing responses, some less than courteous.